Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 129
Let the fire burn up this place.
Who acts: you, fire · What happens: let, burn up · To what, where: fire, place
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 burn | compound:prt |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burn | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn up | infinitive | the fire not said here | this place | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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